Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Audition to study piano with Mario Ajero



This is a video invitation for anyone interested in receiving personalized video piano lessons from Mario Ajero. View the video to find out how to be considered as an online piano student. The YouTube version of this podcast where you can submit your video response can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROsCjz5Lf1U

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Synthesia the Video Game


Synthesia is a video game much like Guitar Hero that utilizes MIDI keyboards in conjunction with MIDI files. It is a free download at:
http://www.synthesiagame.com


Also featured is "Jane's Song" by Christopher Norton published by Frederick Harris Music Co. and available at:
http://www.christophernortonconnections.com

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Intermediate Piano Repertoire


Heather and Jordan review two series of intermediate piano repertoire collections. One is "Piano Literature from The Developing Artist Library by Nancy and Randall Faber. The other is "The Festival Collection" edited by Helen Marlais. To learn more about studying piano pedagogy at Stephen F. Austin State University, go to: http://music.sfasu.edu.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Arranging Hymns for Piano Students



Hyera Kim takes over The Piano Podcast to discuss arranging church hymns for your beginner piano students. To learn more about studying piano pedagogy at Stephen F. Austin State University, go to: http://music.sfasu.edu

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Triads and Inversions


In this video piano lesson, I cover triads and inversions along with fingering in the right hand. We apply that knowledge to playing an arrangement of the first few bars of "Let It Be" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Here's a link to one arrangement of the song:
The Beatles - Let It Be - Sheet Music (Digital Download)

Here's a link to a simplified arrangement of the song by Mona Rejino:
The Beatles - Let It Be - Sheet Music (Digital Download)

Thursday, June 28, 2007

How to Play Trouble by Coldplay



This is a re-podcast of how to play the first few measures of the song "Trouble" by Coldplay on piano. It was originally recorded in May 2006. If you find the lesson helpful, below you will find links to buy recordings and sheet music for the song "Trouble" from iTunes and musicnotes.com. Buying music from these links will donate a small portion of the sales to me, your friendly-neighborhood piano teacher!

Coldplay - Parachutes - Trouble
Buy Coldplay's Trouble from iTunes for $0.99

Trouble
Buy the music video of Coldplay's Trouble from iTunes $1.99


Click here to buy the Coldplay Parachutes music book which contains "Trouble" from musicnotes.com


Click here to buy the Coldplay Parachutes digital sheet music which contains "Trouble from musicnotes.com

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Group Piano Ideas with Julie Knerr - RR


This is a re-run of one of my favorite episodes with Julie Knerr, who shares her expertise in the area of group piano lessons. Included are video clips of her teaching, and I hope that many of you piano teachers out there find some inspiration from these clips.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Duets With Your Piano Students by India Aquino

India Aquino shares some tips and benefits of utilizing duets in the private lesson setting. Many thanks to all the pedagogy students who took on this podcast project for the first time. If you're interested in studying piano pedagogy at Stephen F. Austin State University, visit: music.sfasu.edu.

Monday, February 05, 2007

Dalcroze Eurhythmics with Jordan and Heather

As part of my ongoing series with my piano pedagogy class, Jordan Yerkes and Heather Nolan give an introduction to Dalcroze Eurhythmics and share some activities that can be used in a piano class or lesson. If you're interested in learning more about studying piano at Stephen F. Austin State University, please visit: music.sfasu.edu.

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

How to Play Trouble by Coldplay on Piano



By popular demand, here's another video podcast piano lesson on how to play the song "Trouble" by Coldplay. I also answer email and comments from the first Coldplay piano lesson podcast.

If you find the lesson helpful, below you will find links to buy recordings and sheet music for the song "Trouble" from iTunes and musicnotes.com. Buying music from these links will donate a small portion of the sales to me, your friendly-neighborhood piano teacher!

Coldplay - Parachutes - TroubleBuy Coldplay's Trouble from iTunes for $0.99


TroubleBuy the music video of Coldplay's Trouble from iTunes $1.99



Click here to buy the Coldplay Parachutes music book which contains "Trouble" from musicnotes.com



Click here to buy the Coldplay Parachutes digital sheet music which contains "Trouble from musicnotes.com


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Saturday, March 25, 2006

Group Piano Ideas with Julie Knerr


In this video podcast, I interview Julie Knerr about successful group piano activities that she uses in her studio. She shares video clips of her students to illustrate.

This is one of the largest video podcast files I've made at close to 90 MB. I hope you're patient and give it a chance to download. I think it's worth the wait.

If you use any of these activities with your piano students, let us know how they work out!

Duration: 14:42
File Size: 87.1 MB
File Format: MPEG-4 Video Podcast (.m4v)

Sunday, March 19, 2006

How to Play Clocks by Coldplay


In this video podcast, I show how to play the piano part to the song, "Clocks", by Coldplay.

Duration: 4:34
File Size: 24.1 MB
File Format: MPEG-4 Video Podcast (.m4v)

Update: As of August 1, 2006, the YouTube version of this video podcast has received over 10,000 views and has been favorited 176 times. Pretty cool. Of course, when I see that other videos are up in the hundreds of thousands of views, then it's a bit more humbling. Nonetheless, this is by far the most popular podcast episode of the bunch. Hopefully once I get settled into my new job and home, I'll be able to do more followups to this.